Angela Maurer

Angela Maurer
	Maurer on the winner's podium at the German national championships, Lindau
Personal information
Born	27 July 1975 (age 48); Wiesbaden, West Germany
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Germany
World Championships
European Championships

Angela Maurer (born 27 July 1975) is a German long-distance swimmer.

Career[edit]

Angela Maurer lives in Wiesbaden, where she was born. She swims for the SSV Undine 08 e.V. Mainz swimming club, and trains together with Dimitri Colupaev and Marc-Oliver Stein under Nikolai Evseev in Mainz.^{[citation needed]}

She has been studying at police technical college since 1 September 2007, and is a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate's state elite sports training programme.^{[citation needed]} At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she achieved 4th place in the 10 km marathon swim, only a fraction of a second behind the bronze medallist Cassie Patten.^[1]

In 2009, she won the 10 km open-water race at the German national swimming championships in Lindau with a time of 2:01:31.43, ensuring her place at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome.^{[citation needed]}

Achievements[edit]

Qualifying for the 2008 Olympics at the 5th World Open Water Championships in Seville
8 German national titles in 5 km, 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming
double 2006 European champion in both 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming, runner-up in 1999 and 2002
seven World Championship medals in 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming (one gold, three silver, three bronze)^[2]^[3]^[4]
Overall winner of the 2002 World Cup in open-water swimming
Hesse Sportswoman of the Year
Member of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame

References[edit]

^ "Beijing 2008 – Open water silver and bronze for Brits". Yahoo sport. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
^ "14th Fina World Championships 25 km women's results" (PDF). www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
^ "Open Water, Day 5: Martina Grimaldi of Italy wins women's 25km". www.fina.org. FINA. 27 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
^ Eggert, Greg (23 July 2013). "Open Water, Day 3: Brazil's Okimoto and Cunha finish 1-2 in women's 10km". www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

External links[edit]

Official website (in German)
Angela Maurer at openwaterpedia.com
Final 2011 World Cup Rankings Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine at dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com
Angela Maurer at World Aquatics
Angela Maurer at Olympics.com
Angela Maurer at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
Angela Maurer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

[1] "Beijing 2008 – Open water silver and bronze for Brits". Yahoo sport. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-22.

[2] "14th Fina World Championships 25 km women's results" (PDF). www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

[3] "Open Water, Day 5: Martina Grimaldi of Italy wins women's 25km". www.fina.org. FINA. 27 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

[4] Eggert, Greg (23 July 2013). "Open Water, Day 3: Brazil's Okimoto and Cunha finish 1-2 in women's 10km". www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

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